Archenteron

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  • noun. The central cavity of the gastrula, which ultimately becomes the intestinal or digestive cavity.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. The enteron (which see) in its original or primitive undifferentiated state: opposed to metenteron.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. The primitive enteron or undifferentiated digestive sac of a gastrula or other embryo. See Illust. under invagination.
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  • noun. A primitive alimentary cavity
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  • noun. central cavity of the gastrula; becomes the intestinal or digestive cavity
    • Word Usage
    "It becomes even more obvious when a piece of the roof of the archenteron is planted in the blastocoele."
    Form
    archenteric  
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    bodily cavity  cavity  cavum  
    variant
    invagination  
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